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Post by danielvaughn »

tetris11 wrote: post #141

[Borrowers: The Game] You live as tiny mouse-sized humans existing with regular humans who should never know your presence as you occupy the walls and spaces in their home. Every day you must hunt for food, which involves collecting gear to traverse spaces (paperclip + string = grappling hook and rope, matchstick = torch, plastic bag = parachute) to reach places where food is stored (i.e. the kitchen - defended by th…

fuuuuuck this would be an amazing game. There are so many directions you could take it. Imagine having to get into the next door backyard, but there's a dog. You have to sneak into the bathroom, find some sleeping pills, then sneak the pills into the dog's food bowl.

It would be like a cross between The Last of Us, Hitman, and The Secret World of Arrietty.

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

I want a game with a metagame of breeding/evolution. Cross and mutate your pets to see how they face obstacles and overcome challenges. Watch them get born and die. Watch the shape of the family tree: will it split into specialized subtrees? Will you accidentally lose some genetic diversity you need to progress?

Massive Chalice was a great example, where the pets metagame was about managing a dynasty of fighters, and at the lowest level it was a tactical fighter. The genetics system was relatively simple, and I want to see what it's like when it's developed further.

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Post by est »

a 4x strategy game focused on terrain and logistics

Geography shapes nation borders and supply plays a decisive part of winning wars.

in a Civ game, a battle unit siting in the wild for hundreds of years is just absurd.

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Post by gwill »

dkersten wrote: post #58

Something I've always wanted to play is a game multiplayer game (ideally firt or third person) where you and a small number of friends crew a space ship. Each person has their own role (navigator, weapons, pilot, etc) and you would fly through space and engage in combat. Star Trek: Bridge Crew comes closest to what I'm talking about. Imagine that but not VR (well, VR is cool for this, but I don't have a VR headset, s…

yea, give me Sea of Thieves gameplay in space

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Post by qfwfq_ »

germinalphrase wrote: post #73

A combination of first person shooter and real time strategy. There is a large map and balanced units on each side. Each round, a team commander is chosen randomly from each team. During play, the commander sees a bird’s eye view of the current battle and directs player objectives, waypoints, etc. while everyone else is playing COD-style first person (trying to take advantage of the intelligence and goal setting from…

This also sounds a bit like Planetside 2 [1], which had a similar structure. A relatively large open world where small "provinces" were contested by factions in FPS King-of-the-Hill combat. This meant that any one province action was a part of a larger "front," across which factions would often mass & press offensives. Capturing the entire map led to some kind of reward, and then a reset iirc.

Nothing like rolling up in an APC with 12 people in voice chat on the tip of the spear, or coordinating an entire battery of MAXs keeping the skies clear. Some of the best gaming in general I've ever experienced. Gradually, though, pay to win mechanics pushed me away, and I've not played since 2014.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlanetSide_2

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Post by NortySpock »

germinalphrase wrote: post #73

A combination of first person shooter and real time strategy. There is a large map and balanced units on each side. Each round, a team commander is chosen randomly from each team. During play, the commander sees a bird’s eye view of the current battle and directs player objectives, waypoints, etc. while everyone else is playing COD-style first person (trying to take advantage of the intelligence and goal setting from…

I felt like PlanetSide 2 gets close to this (at least I think the game is still active), though commanders and squad-leads were self-selecting.

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Post by bierjunge »

I'm a big fan of the Hitman franchise from IOI. It would be great to have a game like this, but in a open-world setting.

Something like having a hideout where you can accept contracts with little info on the target. Then you would gather information, like when is your target arriving at the airport, which hotel is it staying at, etc, so you could choose where, when and how to hit. It would be more tactical, similar to the old Rainbow Six games, where planning was 95% of the game and execution of the plan was more or less a formality if the plan was good.

Then a system like in Hitman: Blood Money where getting caught on camera or having witnesses would raise the awareness in security (they know your face -> you can't get close and have to plan accordingly).

Each contract would get you money for equipment, bribes, cars, better or more hideouts. It would be very complex, but not impossible.

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